Matthew WelchThere's no "maybe" about it: Carly Rae Jepsen is back, with a brand new, super-catchy single, "I Really Like You." She debuted the tune on ABC's Good Morning America on Monday, and she'll perform it again on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on March 5. But why was it the perfect song to launch her return to the spotlight? "I liked the joy in it," Carly tells ABC Radio.

The song, with its repetitive chorus, captures that special moment when "like" it just about to become "love." "I think everyone has been in that place where it’s...you’re not quite ready to call it love, but it’s so much more than like," Carly says. "And you really, really, really like them."

"There are six 'reallys' ,'” she laughs. "'I really like' you times six is one more before love, I figure. Seven gets a little overkill. Six just, just tipping point!"

"It sort of chose itself," Carly says, explaining why it's her first single. "It’s sort of one of those things: you go into the studio, you write handfuls of music and you just kind of come out and show everyone, show friends, show family, show label mates. And this song really raised its hand."

She adds, "It was that song that people could sing right away back to you, and I think coming from such a big break, we wanted to come back with something strong. And I liked the joy in it. I think that that was sort of a good start too."

"I Really Like You" has a very retro-'80s sound, and Carly says that was sort of her blueprint when it comes to her upcoming album. "The whole heart and soul of the album is very throwback with, like, a new twist to it," she explains.

Carly co-wrote "I Really Like You" with Peter Svensson from '90s alt-pop band The Cardigans, best known for their super-catchy hit "Lovefool." Some of her other collaborators on the new album -- with whom she worked in New York City -- include Jack Antonoff of fun.; Canadian pop duo Tegan & Sara; Greg Kurstin, who's worked with Kelly Clarkson, Pink and Sia; and super-producer Max Martin.

"I think the rest of the record will be more of a surprise," she tells ABC Radio. "I think this particular song is a bridge to that and I think that having time in New York was really the reason behind that sort of change in feel and that decision to go pure '80s and to kind of experiment."

The video for "I Really Like You" will premiere in the coming days, and it features a special guest star: Tom Hanks. Carly explains what the Oscar-winning actor is doing in the clip.

"It’s sort of the day in the life of Tom Hanks. It’s sort of a video inside of a video," she tells ABC Radio. "He’s on his way to my music video -- to participate and just be awesome -- and he just sort of wakes up singing the song. And he’s getting ready for it, and practicing his dance moves and gargling…I don’t know, all the usual, amazing little day-to-day things that make him so awesome!"

RCA RecordsKellyClarkson's new album, Piece by Piece, is in stores today -- and starting in July, Kelly will be on the road.

The singer announced her Piece by Piece Tour 2015 Tuesday morning on ABC's Good Morning America. The 36-date outing begins July 11 in Hershey, Pennsylvania and wraps up September 20 in Camden, New Jersey. Pentatonix and Eric Hutchinson will open for Kelly on select dates.

If you're a member of Kelly's free online fan club, you'll get an early crack at the tickets, which go on sale to the general public March 14. You can find out more about Kelly's fan club at KellyClarkson.com. Citi cardmembers also get early access, beginning March 10.

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Giving birth is the most primal act in a woman’s life. And yet, modern medicine has turned birthing into a sterile, medical procedure, often performed in a hospital operating room.

But more and more women are rejecting the traditional hospital approach to delivery in favor of a more “personalized” birthing experience, with some literally going back to their primal roots by trekking into the wilderness to give birth.

Born in the Wild is a new reality TV show, which debuts on Lifetime on Tuesday at 10 p.m. It features expectant mothers who chose to give birth outside in the woods. Peter and Audrey Bird, who live in Alaska and have three children, are featured on the show. They said they had a negative experience in the hospital with the birth of their 6-year-old son.

"My labor was full of fear," Audrey, 25, says on the show. "That's not something that I ever wanted to do again.”

So to welcome their daughter Piper, they decided to go into the great outdoors to give birth in a makeshift tent, with no medical professionals.

"I’m excited to have my baby outside in Alaska," Audrey said. "We’re surrounded by the lake, the trees, and the clouds, and the mountains. It’s absolutely breathtaking. We are about a hundred miles from the nearest road. No power lines run to the property, no phone lines, we don't have a sewer system. On this side of the lake, it’s just us. There’s no neighbors. There’s no other families nearby. So we are very isolated."

Practicing OBGYN and ABC News contributor Dr. Jennifer Ashton said, while extreme, more women are taking control of their labor and delivery.

"I think there's no question we're certainly hearing a lot more about alternative births," Ashton said. "I think in large measure that comes because women are growing more and more dissatisfied with what’s being offered by their doctor, by their board certified OB or even in some cases by a certified nurse midwife, and it’s pushing them to seek out these more extreme birthing experiences."

In suburban New Jersey, Cheryl and Terrance Suydam decided to have all three of their children born at home.

With their third child, Cheryl planned to give birth in a tub set up in the family's living room, with two midwives and her husband on hand. In the final stages of labor, she decided instead to move to the family sofa, which had been covered in plastic. After 21 hours of labor, Cheryl delivered a healthy baby girl.

Throughout Suydam's delivery, the couple's two other kids, Livvy and Alex, who were ages 3 and 6 at the time, and even the family dog, freely walked in and out of the birthing room.

Out-of-hospital births are far from the norm. Only around 1 percent of births in the United States are done outside of a hospital, according to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"The fact of the matter remains, that in obstetrics, there can be life and death, last minute emergencies that are unexpected, unanticipated, and if they occur outside of a safe hospital or birthing center setting can be disastrous for the mother or the baby," Ashton said.

But more U.S. hospitals are seeing the trend of mothers wanting options and now offer a variety of birthing experiences, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jennifer Horn had her son Seth at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and although it was her third time giving birth, it was the first time she was able to watch her baby being born.

Horn had previously given birth to two children via C-section, but for her third child, she decided to try Vanderbilt’s “family-friendly” C-section option.

With a traditional C-section, the surgical drape stays up for the entire surgery and the mother is cut off from the birthing process. Afterwards, the baby is usually whisked away to be cleaned up. But with the "family-friendly" option at Vanderbilt, the baby is given to the mother immediately after birth, so she can cradle her newborn, skin-to-skin.

"Studies have shown that babies who have that contact with mom, that skin-to-skin in the first hour, have higher rates of breastfeeding, longitudinally, over time when you look at that three months, six months," said anesthesiologist Dr. Sarah Starr, who helped develop the policy at Vanderbilt.

With this option, the surgical drape still goes up on the mother's midsection during the surgery, but when it's time for the baby to come out, the doctor opens a window in the drape so that the mother can have the same view of her baby being born as a mom giving birth vaginally would.

"It's just like vaginal birth. You don't see anything down there, but you get to see the baby come out," Horn said.

In the same hospital, another mom-to-be named Glenna Kramer opted for a completely different type of delivery for her first child. She wanted to have natural childbirth, without an epidural or an obstetrician present. Instead she had a midwife and a nurse help her through the delivery.

To ease the pain, Glenna used a tub of hot water, an option not available to women attached to IVs, and she had nitrous oxide, more commonly known as "laughing gas," to help take the edge off.

" more or less served the purpose of calming me down and helping me relax and helping me cope with the pain rather than taking the pain away," she said.

In the end, Glenna was snuggling happy, healthy baby boy she had brought into the world by doing it her way.

Reading and a Healthy Life

Your brain is like a mus­cle. It needs to be reg­u­larly exer­cised to main­tain its top capa­bil­i­ties. Keep­ing your brain healthy is a key to hav­ing a healthy life. There are a num­ber of ways to give your brain a work­out: cross­words, jig­saw puz­zles, etc. Read­ing is another great way buff up your brain and improve your life. Here are just a few ways you can make your life bet­ter by reading.

Read­ing relieves stress. Stud­ies have con­cluded that the minute one begins read­ing, stress lev­els can drop by as much 68%.

Read­ing may help you sleep bet­ter. Reading’s a great part of a nightly pre-bed de-stressing rou­tine. Print books are bet­ter for this than screen, like lap­tops or e-readers, because bright lights stim­u­late your brain and sig­nal to it that you should be wak­ing up.

Read­ing is a form of visual exer­cise. The visual stim­u­la­tion involved in read­ing works out your brain’s occip­i­tal lobe. This helps your imag­i­na­tion, improves cre­ativ­ity, and aids in mak­ing deci­sions. Read­ing also exer­cises the pari­etal lobe, improv­ing writ­ing skills and read­ing comprehension.

Read­ing can help ease depres­sion. Read­ing self-help books, in con­cert with instruc­tional sup­port ses­sions, has been linked to lower lev­els of depres­sion com­pared to patients who receive typ­i­cal treatments.

Read­ing may help fight Alzheimer’s. While it’s more of an asso­ci­a­tion than a cause and effect rela­tion­ship, there is evi­dence that elderly folks who read­ing are less likely to suf­fer from Alzheimer’s.

Read­ing makes you sex­ier. We’re all attrac­tive to peo­ple we per­ceive to be intel­li­gent. So if you want to look hot­ter, just keep your nose in a book!